Centre for Professional Skills Development on Public Health (CPSD) conducted a three day short course on ‘Introduction to systematic review and meta-analysis in health research’ from 22-24 August 2017 that has been facilitated by Dr. Shaikh A. Shahed Hossain, PhD, Professor, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University and Consultant Scientist, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b and Dr. Malabika Sarker, PhD is a Professor & Director of Research & Director CoE on the Science of Implementation & Scale-Up (SISU) at James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh.
The course was designed for researchers including clinicians, nurses, epidemiologists and public health practitioners, who are interested in learning the key concepts involved in the design and production of high quality systematic reviews. Although examples used during the course will be taken from the health literature, the underlying concepts taught are applicable to other disciplines and applications from those interested in systematic reviews of non-health research literature are welcomed.